SaaS Servers

You need at least one SaaS Server per each odoo version (e.g. server-8, server-9). Install the saas_server_demo module on your server database. See in saas_server_demo/doc/index.rst how to modify __openerp__.py file for demo modules. There are new parameters are introduced for demo purposes.

Saas Portal

There are new buttons introduced on saas_portal.server view.

• Open SaaS / SaaS / Servers
  • click [Generate Demo Plans] to generate demo plans based on information in __openerp__.py files in your demo modules on selected server.
  • click [Generate Demo Template DBs] to create template databases for demonstration sets.
  • click [Update Repositories] to invoke git pull command for each repositories that are defined in demo repositories list on your server. See saas_server_demo/doc/index.rst for additional information.
  • click [Restart Server]. Each time you update demo repositories you shoud restart the servers.

Automatic Plans generation

Open SaaS Server

• Open SaaS Server / Configuration / Repositories
• Create new record
  • select the repository from drop-down list of available repositories

Open SaaS Portal

• Open SaaS / SaaS / Servers
  • Switch to some Server
  • check that the right version is in Odoo version field. The version should look like 8 for odoo 8.0 or 9 for odoo 9.0, etc.
  • click [Update Repositories]
  • click [Generate Demo Plans]
  • click [Create Demo Template DBs]
• Open SaaS / SaaS / Plans -- you see new plans. For example, Demo 8 Reminders and Agenda (technical core) for reminder modules in 8.0 server

Also, you can activate cron task for recurring checking for updates

• Open Settings / Technical / Automation / Scheduled Actions
• Switch to Scan for demo databases
• Click [Edit]
• Switch Active on
• Click [Save]

Adding demonstration products for online shop

Whenever new demonstrative plan is created the new product for demonstration shop is created also. For different versions of odoo there will be different product variants, e.g. 8.0, 9.0, etc.

Adding demonstration link on odoo apps site

There is live_test_url parameter in odoo modules manifest files. It is a way to provide the link on your demo environment from odoo.com/apps. In this case it is the link to saas portal shop page. And it should look like:

{base_saas_domain}.shop/product/{demo_url}?version={odoo version}

Where

{base_saas_domain} is domain of your saas portal, i.e. apps.it-projects.info,

{demo_url} is the parameter specified along with live_test_url inside of manifest file of the module to demonstrate, i.e. reminderes-and-agenda

and {odoo_version} is one of the 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, etc.

As an example - this is our live_test_url for the reminders modules: http://apps.it-projects.info/shop/product/reminders-and-agenda?version=8.0

nginx configuration

Name conventions

Template databases are named as follows

• {demo_url}-template.odoo-8.demo.{saas_domain} - for odoo 8.0 databases
• {demo_url}-template.odoo-9.demo.{saas_domain} - for odoo 9.0 databases
• {demo_url}-template.odoo-10.demo.{saas_domain} - for odoo 10.0 databases

Here {demo_url} is a new parameter in __openerp__ specially introduced by saas_server_demo module for such purposes, {saas_domain} - is a base saas domain, i.e. it-projects.info

Customer databases are named as follows

• {demo_url}-%i.odoo-8.demo.{saas_domain} - for odoo 8.0 databases
• {demo_url}-%i.odoo-9.demo.{saas_domain} - for odoo 9.0 databases
• {demo_url}-%i.odoo-10.demo.{saas_domain} - for odoo 10.0 databases

, where %i is a number of demo database

After that, you need to configure proxing to corresponded odoo installation, for example

.odoo-8.demo.it-projects.info -> port 8869, 8872
.odoo-9.demo.it-projects.info -> port 8969, 8972
.odoo-10.demo.it-projects.info -> port 8069, 8072

Sample nginx configuration for odoo 8 demo databases

server {
       listen 80;
       server_name .odoo-8.demo.it-projects.info;

       location /longpolling {
           proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8872;
       }

       location / {
           proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8869;
       }
}